How To Prepare a Halal Meal

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In Islam, a set of dietary regulations determines what you can eat. Here's how to serve up a meal according to the basic rules.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Approved ingredients
Culinary skill

Step 1: Understand the terminology

Learn the correct terms. Halal means permissible, lawful, or recommended in Arabic, while haram means illicit. These two words are often used to describe foods that are either allowed or forbidden.

Step 2: Plan your menu

When planning your menu, keep in mind that Islamic law has several different schools of interpretation. All agree that fish with scales are halal, for example, but there are differing opinions on shellfish.

Tip: If you're in doubt about whether a certain food is halal, check with the imam at your mosque.

Step 3: Steer clear of pork

Islamic law forbids the consumption of pork. Look carefully at ingredient labels—meatballs, hot dogs, and even marshmallows can contain pork or pork products.

Step 4: Eat correctly slaughtered meat

Other meats are not automatically halal. Animals must be ritually slaughtered in the name of Allah with one slit to the throat, and then drained of all blood. This slaughtering method is called zabihah.

Step 5: Steer clear of carnivores and carrion

Carnivorous animals, birds of prey, and animals killed by accident or by another animal are all haram.

Step 6: Avoid alcohol

Islamic law forbids alcohol consumption, which includes cooking with alcohol. In recipes calling for wine, beer, or liquor, substitute mixtures of vegetable stock, fruit juice, and vinegar.

Tip: Check with an authority before using vinegar. Some Islamic schools of thought consider it haram because of its alcohol content.

Step 7: Eat your veggies

Eat as many vegetables and legumes as you want. They're all halal.

Step 8: Beware of vanilla

When making dessert, beware of vanilla, a common ingredient in sweets. Vanilla extract's alcohol content makes it haram, but pure vanilla beans are halal. Synthetic vanilla flavor may be permitted if the manufacturer used no alcohol to process it.

Step 9: Hit the stores

Once you've chosen your menu, it's time to buy the ingredients. Many cities offer halal butchers, and your local market may offer halal packaged foods.

Tip: Different countries have different certification authorities and symbols. Find out which label is used in your area. Also look for the word halal written on packaging in English or Arabic.

Step 10: Cook your meal

Cook your meal. Once you know your ingredients are halal, there are no more restrictions, and you can adapt any cuisine to these rules.

Step 11: Give thanks and eat

Before eating, remember to give thanks to Allah for the food before you. During the meal, always pass to the right.

Step 12: Share your meal

Invite others to your table. When the prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was asked what his favorite food was, he replied, "The one I am sharing."

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[therock83019]

I liked this video so much keep up

[thugg22]

@wallpaper72 But what will the "Mr. Activist" do? Because his brains cannot handle the truth said to him, he just starts brainlessly spam anything that comes up to his mind. My advice is that don't start writing in that berserk mode, it's not like anyone will read them anyways or pay any further attention to that filth. Rather just take a sit and ponder, use your brains and make thinking. But most they won't do it, so they remain dumb and stay dumb until they die, what a pathetic life.

[thugg22]

@wallpaper72 Also they wont say a thing about crimes done to humanity but when they see a halal slaughter oh my.... This level of hypocrisy is indeed awfully high. I don't really get it, what is wrong with you people? Start fixing the problems that are close to you. If you're such an animal activists then you better start fixing those pathetic farms/factories close to you. Actually you should start making noise how USA / Israel and rest of the criminal gang are slaughtering kids / women.

[thugg22]

@wallpaper72 Thanks for the daily ignorance. Now let me guess, after leaving that comment you headed to a super market and bought a kilo of "stunned" meat. Of course you will not say anything about how they used to treat the animals, which is today (done mostly by the atheists) one of the sickest things on Earth. Atheists are usually such cowards that when they see a drop of blood they start crying, even if the way was much less painful, ie. guillotine.

[wallpaper72]

@invinciblemode in this day and age there is no reason to kill an animal without first stunning it, halal is about vicious 3rd world loons torturing animals while praying to an imaginary God. Its disgusting and has no place a civilized country.

[invinciblemode]

@wallpaper72 have you seen food inc? THAT's how YOUR meat is made. Watch the whole movie and then PM me which is more cruel. :)

[LVEU424]

subhanallah ..



[wallpaper72]

Its about time we banned this wicked cruelty to animals, if Muslims starved that would be a positive benefit to such legislation.

[MrGOA999]

Prophet Muhammad SAW is NOT the founder of Islam. He is the messenger of Islam.

[volkz1]

@maminecka u shud check diz out for non halal meat..

1)go to youtube

2) type Carne Para Mc Donalds.avi

its surely interesting..